2022 Community Needs Assessment Report


2022 COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT REPORT
POVERTY AMIDST PLENTY VII: MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER
“The needs assessment is important because in so
many ways it serves as the preamble for a playbook: A
playbook for creating positive change in our community.
If we can see the issues, we can find the solutions.”
–CFAAC Board Member and Fundholder Andrea Beegle
The Community Association of Anne Arundel County
strives to help make Anne Arundel County a wonderful
place to live for all. We know that the love of our beautiful
county is shared by many but also realize there are pockets
of need throughout. Therefore, every three years, CFAAC
publishes a needs assessment report that examines the
gap that exists between the current state of our county
and the desired state of our county. The needs assessment
is a data-rich report intended to increase knowledge and
awareness about persistent local trends and needs in Anne
Arundel County.
In the fall of 2022, the report’s author, Pamela Brown,
Ph.D., the Executive Director of the Anne Arundel County
Partnership for Children, Youth and Families, hosted needs
assessment presentations around the county including
three public sessions at Maryland Hall for the Creative
Arts, the Chesapeake Arts Center, and Anne Arundel
Community College. The presentations were well attended
and Pamela continues to host additional talks, as needed.
The 2022 Anne Arundel County Community Needs
Assessment, Poverty Amidst Plenty VII, contains collective
quantitative and qualitative data from a variety of local,
state and national sources, focus groups, and more. The
focus groups were comprised of diverse voices throughout
the county including residents, advocates, and health
care personnel and providers, representing a total of 168
participants. Their comments are threaded throughout
the report. The data was reviewed until dominant themes
emerged, which became the subtext of the report.
By tracking the key measures of community well-being,
CFAAC can identify priority needs and possibly
identify root causes that contribute to those needs.
Then nonprofits, community advocates, individual
philanthropists, volunteers, business leaders, elected
officials, policy makers, government agencies, foundations,
professional advisors, and the general population can
use this report to develop and prioritize strategies and
implement plans. It allows us to work together and
develop a common vision for Anne Arundel County—a
vision that can be the catalyst in the formula to determine
real community solutions. To support these efforts,
CFAAC plays an important role by building permanent
philanthropic assets that are necessary to sustain our local
nonprofits and the wonderful work they do.
Mary Grace Folwell, Anne Hamel, Martha Van
Woerkom, Amy Tate, and Mary Spencer at the
Anne Arundel Community College presentation.
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Larry Clark, Kathy Luthcke, Rosemary Calderalo,
Damika Baker-Wilson, and
Rosalind Calvin at the Chesapeake Arts
Center presentation.
Amy Tate, Kate Caldwell, Martha Van Woerkom,
Andrea Beegle, Mary Spencer, Dr. Brown, and
Larry Burrows at the
Maryland Hall presentation.
Dr. Pamela Brown presenting at Maryland Hall.
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